A dune buggy can be fun and challenging.
What Is A Dune Buggy
They have been around for about 40 years and are currently going through a surge in popularity. With many dune buggy manufacturers offering a growing range of finished buggies, the future looks bright.
However, a cheaper option for anyone handy with a wrench is to buy a dune buggy kit and assemble it yourself. They are pretty easy to put together and the finished vehicle is practical and fun.
More Dune Buggy Info
Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual
There has been a huge resurgence of interest in Dune Buggies (Beach Buggies) - kit cars based on the chassis and running gear of fatally corroded VW Beetles. Here is the complete step-by-step practical guide to the equipment and building techniques needed to build a Buggy, as well as sound guidance on the choice of donor car and new components. With this manual in your workshop, you can build any VW-based Dune Buggy avoiding all the common pitfalls and money-sapping mistakes, and end up with a superb, roadworthy multi-purpose vehicle.
Amazon Price: $36.46 (as of 11/28/2009) 
How to Build a Dune Buggy
All the steps necessary to build a dune buggy are outlined and illustrated in this 221-page book. Learn how to select and paint a frame, install a steering gear box, tie rods and steering shaft, hook up the transmission, overhaul your engine and wire your buggy. A great guide for both the novice and experienced dune buggy enthusiast.
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 11/28/2009)
Dune Buggy Handbook
The complete A-Z guide to American & British Volkswagen-based Dune/Beach Buggies for all VW enthusiasts. Over 100 individual makes of Buggy described and pictured. Each entry gives model description, technical specification, identification tips & historical information. Many previously unpublished photographs. Written by a leading authority on Buggies, who also gives an introduction to the Buggy cult. Contains archive material including period ads and sales brochures as well as related toys.
Amazon Price: (as of 11/28/2009)
Fun In A Dune Buggy
Even More Dune Buggy Stuff!
Baja Bugs and Buggies
There are tons of tricks ad tips in this book that aren't HIGH DOLLAR jobs. Simple and easy things to do during your build up that will save you hours trying to go back and fix things later. It should be called How to do it right the First time! It is one of few auto books with real knowledge in it that skips the technical jargon and flashy billet parts and suggests things that will work! You will be pleased with it whether you are building a Baja, Street Bug, Rail Buggy or Dune Buggy. The air cooled VW motor still rules an always will!
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 11/28/2009)
Dune Buggies (Enthusiast Color)
Dune buggies are popular all over the world. Inspired by Volkswagen's own Kubelwagen and Schwimmwagen, these go-anywhere machines begin with VW Beetle mechanical parts as a platform for completely customized vehicles. This book explains the background and development of buggies and the buggy scene. The chapters are devoted to some of the world's best buggies, cool interiors, outrageous paint schemes, engines built for 'show' and for 'go,' as well as the community surrounding these vehicles. Both VW-based vehicles and sand rails are included.
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 11/28/2009)
The Dune Buggy Files: Past,Present,Future
Dune Buggies have been around for over four decades. In this stunningly comprehensive volume you can relive their colorful history from crude off roaders developed in the 1960s, to the superb show vehicles of the 1980s and 1990s, and take a glimpse into the future of these unique, fun vehicles.
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 11/28/2009)
Great Dune Buggy Stuff
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